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Jinye Zangchuan
Ancient book restorer Yu Guanlan is best at dealing with "missing characters". He believes that every blank space has its origin, and the break on the paper is not the end, but that someone has stopped writing here. During a provincial library restoration mission, he received a fragmented volume with no title, no chapter, and no signature of the editor. The fragmentary page is from the Northern Song Dynasty, but it is mixed with paper, ink color and proofreading that should not belong to the sam
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On Paper, There Is No Countercurrent in the Bianhe River
Yu Chizhou, an ancient book restorer at the Provincial Library, took over a dilapidated old book with no author and no date of publication. The title of the book has only four words: "Principles of Bianhe River Water". The strangest thing about this book is not that the paper comes from the Northern Song Dynasty, nor that the book records a long-lost river, but that every time Yu Chizhou repairs a page, a line of ink will appear on the edge of the page. The ink seemed to be written for him. "Pag
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